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Hos. 2:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredomss out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

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Ezek. 16:25• ²⁵{i}thou didst build thy high place at every head of the way, and madest thy beauty to be abhorred, and thou didst open thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiply thy whoredom.{/i} (Ezek. 16:25)

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Isa. 58:1• ¹Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins. (Isa. 58:1)

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Jer. 2:2• ²{i}Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: I remember for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.{/i} (Jer. 2:2)

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Jer. 19:3• ³{i}and say{/i}, Hear ye the word of Jehovah, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle. (Jer. 19:3)

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Ezek. 20:4• ⁴Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers, (Ezek. 20:4)

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Ezek. 23:45• ⁴⁵{i}And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women that shed blood; for they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.{/i} (Ezek. 23:45)

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Matt. 23:37‑39• ³⁷{i}Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [the city] that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!{/i}
³⁸Behold, your house is left unto you desolate;
³⁹for I say unto you, Ye shall in no wise see me henceforth until ye say, Blessed [be] he that cometh in Jehovah's name. (Matt. 23:37‑39)

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Acts 7:51‑53• ⁵¹Stiffnecked and uncircumcised in hearts and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers so ye.
⁵²Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they slew those that announced beforehand of the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye became betrayers and murderers,
⁵³ye, which received the law as ordinances of angels and kept it not. (Acts 7:51‑53)

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2 Cor. 5:16• ¹⁶So that we henceforth know no one as to flesh: if we have even known Christ as to flesh, yet now are we no longer knowing [him]; (2 Cor. 5:16)

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Isa. 50:1• ¹Thus saith Jehovah, Where [is] the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is it] to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. (Isa. 50:1)

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Jer. 3:6‑8• ⁶{i}And Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen what backsliding Israel hath done? She hath gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath committed fornication.{/i}
⁷{i}And I said, After she hath done all these things, she will return unto me; but she returned not. And her sister Judah, the treacherous, saw it.{/i}
⁸{i}And I saw that when for all the causes wherein backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce, yet the treacherous Judah, her sister, feared not, but went and committed fornication also.{/i} (Jer. 3:6‑8)

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Hos. 1:2• ²The beginning of the word of Jehovah by Hosea. And Jehovah said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from Jehovah. (Hos. 1:2)

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Jer. 3:1,9,13• ¹{i}They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? Would not that land be utterly polluted? But thou hast committed fornication with many lovers; yet return to me, saith Jehovah.{/i}
⁹{i}And it came to pass through the lightness of her fornication that she polluted the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.{/i}
¹³Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 3:1,9,13)

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Ezek. 16:20,25• ²⁰Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
²⁵{i}thou didst build thy high place at every head of the way, and madest thy beauty to be abhorred, and thou didst open thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiply thy whoredom.{/i} (Ezek. 16:20,25)

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Ezek. 23:43• ⁴³{i}And I said of her that was old in adulteries, Will she now commit her fornications, even she.{/i} (Ezek. 23:43)

• “Your mother” looks at them corporately as a body. (“Hosea 2” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not my wifeh, neither am I her husbandh: and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

JND Translation Notes

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Ishshah; Ish, as vers. 7 and 16. see Gen. 2.23.

W. Kelly Translation

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Plead with your mother. Plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)